Does Copper WIRE Through Tomato Stem STOP Disease?
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
- In this video, I show you an experiment to see if copper wire through a tomato stem helps to prevent or stop diseases such as fungal problems like blight.
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Sad to think people smash him in the comments. He works tirelessly to make videos for us and y’all tear him down. Keep up the great work mark. I at least always appreciate ur effort
I agree, people can be such turds.....not even good enough to be called compost.
Marilyn haha good one!
I mean, I think everyone is guilty at least once for having a few wines while watching a vid, getting a bit boisterous and alpha like. If everyone did it once a year, you end up with a seemingly crazy population.
This wonderful channel generally ALWAYS has at least one comment where everyone (with a sense of humour!) posts in good-natured jest to keep the joke going as long as possible. Mark seems to have a great sense of humour and I highly doubt he is offended... instead, he’s laughing along with the rest of us. It’s actually a backhanded compliment of sorts. Besides, the YT algorithm counts the NUMBER of the comments, but NOT THE NATURE of them... So in that regard, the long-running “joke” comments (that are quite obviously NOT to be taken seriously) are actually HELPING his statistics, rather than hurting his feelings. (See the comments under the first copper wire experiment... THE COATED VERSUS UNCOATED COPPER WIRE “DEBATE” ... where everyone from a self-proclaimed pseudo-scientist to Santa Claus expressed their views...) It was funnier than most videos that are categorized by YT as comedy...! If he (Mark - the creator) didn’t like the comments he could have just taken them down. But he didn’t, so I’m pretty sure he takes the comments as the compliments that they really are. Peace 💜
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I would totally buy a Self Sufficient Me shirt that says "I'm a backyard gardener just trying my best."
John Jenkins How about “A Backyard Farmer Outstanding In My Field” ... nah... bad pun nobody would get 😁
@@LucyJazzy85 I love it and would buy that shirt.
@@LucyJazzy85 lol nice
yes pls
@@LucyJazzy85 Ha Ha, good one!
“I’m a backyard Gardner just trying my best!”
And we love you for it! Thanks for all the effort and information!
Yes we do😍😍😍😍
Will Bunt I loved that comment as well... isn’t that what we all are doing? 🌱
I love the kookaburras especially when they laugh at you Mark, you handle their criticism well!
A copper wire ring (I use very cheap copper refrigerator hosing) around your plants WILL DETER snails and slugs which are the prevalent pest in hot, humid Florida which is very similar to Brisbane. The sliminess of the snails and slugs somehow reacts with the copper wire and they will NOT cross it. I thank my Grandpa for this valuable tip. Peace and blessings to all... 💜
Didn’t work for me.
But beer traps NEVER fail.
@@jamessones4044 If you put Bud Light in those traps it will kill all the woke and transgendered snails and slugs.
Apparently its because it harmlessly shocks the slugs and snails.
I'm a biologist, a back yard gardener and avian veterinarian. Between the study, the garden and the birds, I love everything about this video! Thank you for making this, and all the other videos you create!
AMEN! Well said! TY
Imagine being stabbed in the guts and keep chuggin' on like nothing has changed.
Good work little tomatoes.
Maybe it’s more like a belly button piercing.
Imagine your arm being ripped off and grown into another living thing. Plants are not like us
@@danielpalacios4848 they're actually more like living blood vessels
*I'm a backyard gardener just trying my best.*
I put a tin foil hat on my tomatoes...just in case that the aliens wouldn't eat it.
Lol
Excellent...
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'just a backyard Gardener, doing my best'
That's all we can do
I love how even in your most intensive moment, youre still a great sport and funny.
Mark, I think you're brilliant. You remind me of my father...cheers from the U.S. 👍 Love your vids!
Wow, almost 1 million subscribers, you deserved it mate 😊😊😁
Instructions unclear when i turned the power on plant blew out of ground, what went rong??
Russelle Wannell you think you have problems. I ground up a bunch of American wheat pennies and buried them with the plants. All my tomatoes look like Abraham Lincoln!
LOL❣️❣️❣️
Underrated comment
Mine turned into a Tesla coil that I cannot turn off... therefore I am unable to test the tomatoes for fear of losing my life. It DOES make a terrific bug zapper though ... 🌱
Omg! Did you even ground them before plugging them in? 🙄
Mark, you are a trooper! I love that you have the curiosity to not only do the experiment once, but to stand up to those who slam you and perform the experiment again. Good on ya.
I also respect that.. Thank you for posting, Sandy..
I find this very interesting, the uptake of nutrients like you mentioned is through the roots. Putting copper in the soil may be more beneficial than going through the stem. Diseases could be a factor of imbalance mineral content.
Thanks again for sharing
Eddy
This is what I thought as well.
Definitely right!! You don’t stick the wire in the stems! You put it in the dirt. Poking anything through the stems can hurt a plant. He did it totally wrong.
@@kells7252 I agree. this video was made 2 years ago. He should correct himself with the right procedure. The 100k+ viewers didnt get what they should deserve, but were all ill-advised.
I'm eager to try homemade colloidal copper spray. I think it will be far more ideal than a normal copper based spray that contains water soluble copper compounds. The colloid spray should both feed the plant needed nutrients and when it dries it should get into the textured surface of the plant where it will not wash away from rain, unlike those copper compound based sprays.
I’m from TN and I love how you say “cupawya” for copper wire
He really is eandearing isnt he? i came to Tn and drove to Ga, then returned back thru Nc thru the Great Smokies , literally, thru clouds driving at night, reading a paper map. it was great, even doing it solo...it was last year, when ppl were free ( to fly around the planet )
Tests have been done in my area of the US and they agree with your findings. Keep up the amazing videos!!
Hi Mark, I did see the video last year on how you did the copper test, and honestly I did agree that the wire may be coated and therefore not make a difference. With that said, I want to congratulate you on making this follow up, also thanking you. Your channel has been an inspiration and the wealth of info I have seen (and used) from you, starting on my own, is a daily blessing. I have lost my job end of March as our lock-down began and do this full-time here in sunny Limpopo - South Africa. Keep it up, you are a star!!!
I have been following your channel for a few years now, and every time you put out a new video it brightens my day. I'm from Minnesota in the US, so my growing climate is very different, but I'm always learning new things from you that help in my own garden! So I just wanted to thank you for trying your best ❤
I love watching your videos mate, they are very informative and bring me calmness. Keep doing what you want to do and don't let people bully you into doing what they want.👍
Love the kookaburras and your reaction to them. Reminds me of the movie "Love at First Bite." Thanks for all you do for us backyard gardeners.
I love how the cute, dry, and earnest humor in your videos continues to grow (noticing I’m giggling more than usual when watching :) ). Love your series so much!!
I appreciate you settling any doubt by making another video. im sorry that you were being bashed in the previous videos, people are very passionate about gardening!
My grand father when planting tomatoes would dig in various manures, blood & bone, potash ( from a friends wood fire) he would let this sit for about a week, water with a solution of copper sulphate a day or two prior to planting. After planting he would water for the following few days with a liquid fertiliser. Then follow this with plain water until bud set. He would then use the liquid fertiliser once a week. He never had an issue with any diseases. He would also never water the leaves/flowers/fruit. If rain was forecast, he would tie shade cloth over the top to protect the flowers and fruit. Some of the best tasting tomatoes I have ever had.
As someone who has never had success with tomatoes, I’m going to give this a try. Thanks.
That won't do anything. The copper acts topically. This is like grinding up an asprin and rubbing it on your forehead because you have a headache. Whereas putting a copper wire through it is like duct taping that asprin to your forehead. It's idiocy and evidence that people aren't even paying attention in year 7 science. This is first year high school stuff.
Dr. Lex Winter where my grandparents live the soils were and still are in some places extremely sandy and baron. My grandfather spent a couple of decades developing the soil in his garden areas to a more sustainable growing medium. All I have done in the following years of his passing have followed his diaries on improving the soils that he found successful. I will give you this example of the soil. The soil will not hold any shape when moistened, in summer, with any wind, you get small dust clouds. When you water, you do not get a puddle forming on the surface, within a couple of hours the soil, in the top few inches, has almost dried completely. We do not possess to be scientific people, but my grandfather loved to experiment with different processes and advice. He must have found this to be the best for his environmental situation. This may not be the most efficient nor most effective way of doing something, but if it works for his situation why mess with it.
For those who read this, here is a rundown of some things found in his gardening shed.
Urea, blood & bone, copper sulphate (powder and liquid), gypsum, various manures, all purpose fertilisers (granules and powders), iron sulphate, copper sulphate (powder and liquid), white oil, rock minerals, iron chelate, buckets of ash, potassium powder, various herbicides and pesticides (some of which are now illegal to use).
All these were and still are neatly stored in his shed, I have also continued the garden, when I can, and have become very adept at keeping everything in its place, and following his diaries of when and where to plant, fertilise and maintain the various plants and equipment that he had. He was a very meticulous person, and kept some very detailed diaries, if not sometimes very cryptic.
What he found and did, worked for his location and soil, not everyone has the same soils or microclimates. I do now that the soils around my grandparents home (not already improved) is very baron and is lacking many basic minerals and microbes. I cannot reiterate myself enough, this is what worked for him, for his garden and environmental situation. Experimenting and testing is the only way to know what your soils are lacking and the best ways to correct these imbalances.
He found an agronomist (early 1980s) to test his soils, the tests were carried out over a 2 year period at or near the beginning of each season. (According to his diary entries) ‘sands of hell’ ‘everything needs to be added’.. the agronomist helped him design out his garden, and diary entries indicate that they spent many hours on weekends developing the gardens, preparing crop rotation plans etc. when he passed in the late 2000, I spent months trawling through diaries and computer entries, he had accumulated 2 filing cabinets worth of history. In today’s world, much of his information was able to be found online, so much was disposed of, other things were digitised. I would love to see and know what my grandfather and his friend would make of the gardens today.
@@dr.lexwinter8604 hmmmmm, the skin is our largest organ & is so absorbent as to actually take in that which is placed on & near it.
Jr high school science.
You're welcome
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@@StaitlyNatters, fascinating!
Thank you, for sharing & standing up for your Grandfather, in such a calm but firm way.
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When Mark got angry
He came to me
Arms like trees
Chest like a mountain
Hands holding copper wire
His smile GONE
LETS
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Into It
Did you remember to connect the battery to the wires ?
I like how you always encourage discussion. Discussion is good... bashing is not ok. I appreciate you and your efforts!
Hey Mark I’ve been watching your videos for months and yesterday attempted my first Hügelkultur and it saved me so much money on soil.
I was a pretty good gardener before I came across your channel and regardless I’m happy to see things I already know being put in a really well said summary but also you helped my knowledge and progress improve so much with your videos.
So please even if there’s people who watch your channel get a bit opinionated. Your giving a wonderful insight for the others that didn’t know about it, wanted to try it or someone who already did it before but may want a better understanding on the progress so please continue doing what makes you happy and doing what you want to do because it’s amazing work!!
Good on you for doing these experiments! Even if they are not the best controlled, I think it's important to show people they can do their own experiments. Good job!
Hey Mark, love your channel. I'm using copper wire in my garden for electroculture. It follows same reasoning as how terrific plants look after a rain storm. You wind copper wire around a stick from in soil to top of stick and leave some wire sticking into the air like antenna
Such a good guy. New videos always brighten up my day.
I take my hat off to you Mark. Great channel to save time experimenting with so many things.
There is a darn good reason Mark has almost a million subscribers.. Great vids, always with a sense of humor. Watched them all and look forward to the next. Not very Fall like (Autumn like) here yet in Sacramento, 98 today, and for the next week. Tomatoes still producing, seems like a long summer this year.
Heating the copper created an oxide coating, you need to redo the experiment again!
Just kidding... Another great vid, thanks!
Its not a really thick oxide layer...
Lol
LOL... Noooooooooo!
@@Selfsufficientme Probably the copper has to be dissolve in the roots, maybe you can try it in a tomato plant in a pot, just saying...also you can try another experiment if rust help plants to grow faster or better, I mean if you pour rust or iron oxide in the plants roots
@@Selfsufficientme get some powdered copper and do again.😜
Great video. You're a gardening champ and an open-minded person. No harm in that. Keep up the great videos!
First time I see your channel, I love how it guides us in this wonderful world of gardening, keep going from Peru
I concur. I tried this as well and found no difference except a little weakness due to injuring the plant stem. Thanks Mark keep them coming.
Years ago a relative used copper wire on some of her tomato plants while not on others. The plants with no wire but that were sprayed did far better than the ones with copper wire through the stem.
Keep up the good work, Mark. You're an inspiration to us gardeners and homesteaders across the globe.
Thank you Joe! That's very kind of you to say mate 👍🙂
I live in Belgium, so many videos don't apply to my climate at all, but I just love watching your videos. I can't understand how anybody would want to smash you or the content that you put out. Your good mood is so infectious, so watching your videos is like a mini vacation (the exotic bird sounds help - we mostly hear wood pigeons here 🙄), but where you can learn something, too. And not only about gardening, but - without getting too philosophical - about life, too: don't take yourself too seriously, if at first you don't succeed get up and try again, keep smiling!
So please: keep getting into it!!
Here is something that does work: brews,extractions and fermentations of certain plants. Horsetail fern chopped and brewed with hot water, then leave to cool down and soak a few hours, spray. General rule of thumb, like with companion planting: if the plant is not susceptible to a certain pest it has active ingredients we can use to combat those . Just need to research the ingredients and extract without destroying them, basically. Horsetail lives in wet patches and drains and never has fungal infections = fungicide on board. Tomato leaf brew is good to combat slugs and snails btw. Even kills eggs in the ground! Happy gardening.
Interesting!!
citronella geranium, rosemary, lavender
Mark, therell always be those who spruik the pluses AND minuses. In the end we all just wanna grow great tomatoes. Thanks for the experiment and I wont be using the wire on my plants.😉
Great guy to redo the experiment because of the comments! You did a great job!
Great execution on this experiment. Thank you for sacrificing a section of your garden for everyone's betterment.
"I'm a backyard gardener just trying his best."
I felt that as I had to pull and ditch all 6 of my tomato plants last month because of blight 😭
From Ireland? I had to ditch all my large tomato plants last week here in Scotland. Got nothing from them. The cuttings I took from them were doing okay in one spot in the garden, but as soon as I brought them indoors (due to the cold) - blight! Grr, they even have tiny green tomatoes on them as well. It would have been the best I'd managed so far if they'd ripened.
@@debbiehenri345 Use your green tomatoes, they are valuable!! plan A) Add some garlic, fine apple vinegar and green chilis to those green tomatoes. Blend the mixture well, and there, you have your a salsa verde. Plan B) Wouldn't you like hot spice, slice your green tomatoes very thin along with some cabbage, onion, carrot, cauliflower, cucumber, sweet pepper. Salt the mixed vegetables and let it rest and soften for a couple of hours. Make a brine to your taste with water, salt, apple vinegar, sugar, bay leaves, black pepper, dill, mustard and coriander seeds. Place the softened veggies into jars, pour the brine over. You have the finest mixed pickles named csalamádé in Hungary.
Hey here in Alabama I had the great year for tomato’s and very little leaf rotting. I also put a milk jug under each plant. Saw it on utube so I tried it. Worked great watered about every third day, rain helped but my plants looked great and produced so many I had to give a lot away
Thank you, your videos are great and almost 2 million people think that, otherwise they wouldn’t subscribe. Thank you for all your hard work on this content 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
great job, experimental gardens are great! very nice controls and scientific method. keep it up i love your work
So I liked it real quick just to experience being first to like but I’m done watching the whole thing and I’d like to confirm, I 👍🏽 this video.
Fascinating and not what I expected! Also, loved the laughing birds ;-) By the way, is it a Neem Oil fungicide that you used on the other tomato plants? I'm wondering how often you use a eco-fungicide.
My dad who was a WW11 veteran and a fantastic gardener was taught by the Italians to do as you are and he always used copper wire! I love your videos my son-in-law and I have a huge garden and if we need to know something we go to your channel!!!
I like that you’re a backyard gardener just trying ya best
Good on ya, buddy !
Hey, don't bash the hell out of Mark! He's doing his best!
I've got your back! You are both vastly informative and entertaining, and I have watched nearly all of your content! ♡♥︎♡
This is what my grandmother added to her planting holes: 1 REAL copper penny, 1 RUSTY nail, and 1 non-used match torn out of a matchbook. Could not be a stick match, could not be used. She always had a beautiful garden. At the end of the season we would pull the plants and retrieve the penny and nail for use next year. The match was always gone and sometimes the nail would be gone.
So copper, iron, and sulpher.
You were fortunate enough to have and hear your grandma. For you and yours, “this will help you to survive”. To others, it’s an offering. Thank you for sharing. Something we can ALL afford.
@Moose knucklehead she didn't have any readily available. If she did, yes she probably would have.
@@darthlaurel wasn't sure what the match added, but it always seemed to help
Will definitely have to try that. I have trouble with tomatoes every year, so I have nothing to lose - an old penny, a nail and a match. Gotcha.
This man is an international treasure. Been following for over 5 years. Keep it up my Australian friend 😂
I enjoy your videos and love the authentic and genuineness of you. Great work
Interesting stuffs;
Stay safe mates👍 🇦🇺
I haven't had the best luck with growing tomatoes, just started gardening as a newbie earlier this year when the whole pandemic started, but i feel like it would be better just to fertilize the soil and use foliar spray just like you already do! Love your videos, hope y'all are doing well!
Very true! The BEST way to keep disease and pests away is to grow a happy plant with the right soil, enough water, and appropriate nutrition. Cheers :)
Took us three years of planting before we had decent crops of tomatoes. Keep building your soil up and learning from mistakes, and you'll get there.
@@allenz7688 thank you 😊
So many women have taken up gardening since they saw bare supermarket shelves for the first times in their lives. It's a good thing. Being self sufficient is important, many of us were taught this as children and incorporated it into our everyday life and it's great to see instead of it being a male dominated hobby that women are realising we aren't stark raving mad after all! :)
@@dr.lexwinter8604 I think you’d really like the Lovely Greens channel. She just wrote a book about this exact phenomena. :)
I found myself smiling throughout, you have a catchy personality. Thanks for the knowledge. i've subscribed.
Very interesting video and concept! Great videos, keep it up!
7:18 for the Kookaburras! When they laugh, I can't help but laugh myself. Great experiment.
So interesting as I have heard of this but never tried it.
love your videos, mark. I learn so much from you! Please don't sell yourself short by comparing yourself to your brother. We all have our gifts. You are a gifted gardener, which is no small vocation. AND probably gifted in a lot of other things we in VLOG land don't even have a clue about!! Missouri, USA
Thanks for retesting and having control plants to compare. Good experiment. Love the channel!!!
I PUT COPPER WIRE THROUGH A USELESS TREE IN MY HOUSE FOR AN EXPERIMENT AND IT YELLOWED UP ALL THE LEAVES
AND BTW THE KOOKABURRA ARE SOO FUNNY IN THE BACKGROUND
I thought about doing this experiment too. For the copper to make any difference it has to be dissolved and flow through the plant. You should be able to prove this did or did not happen by accurately weighing each copper wire before and after the experiment. If the wire hasn't lost weight then the copper didn't go anywhere and it's proven to be useless. I'm not sure tomato plant fluids are acidic enough to dissolve copper metal
Dude, I love everything about your channel. Keep it it going!
Thanks for putting in the effort to make these!
then remember Mark like you said "prove to yourself" and worry not what the copper wire proponents say
The goalposts will shift now “it’s not good enough! The fluids going through THAT variety of tomato’s isn’t acidic enough to activate the copper!”
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for organic disease/pest control options, but this one people need to let go, great video
Love your videos. Backyard gardener here in California. I experiment a lot too. It's how I learn.
kudoos to this man ! what a determination , doing the experiment twice because some comments suggested it was a great idea
well done sir! very well done indeed
This got me wondering (DANGER ALERT) lol. Piercing the stem might not work, but what if there was a small spiral of copper wire in the soil and you plant your seedlings among it. Maybe the soil bacteria would break it down enough for the roots to uptake it and be beneficial that way? I may have to try that next season.
Or planting in a copper pot.
This guy grew put copper coils in his potted plant garden and used a control group, which didn't have the coils. He planted potatoes and onions in the pots. The difference in growth is significant. (15:10)
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Hi Self Sufficient Me,
Piercing a tomato plant through the stem, just really does not seem like a lot of surface area to do much good. What if the extra bits of wire were incorporated into the soil in contact with the roots. I think that's where the action is. But I'm a simple bloke with hardly any gardening experience. Cheers,
Bill
Interesting info! I have not heard of doing that, so good experiment to test to see if it worked. You have proved that there isn't any change. Thanks Mark for showing this.
Mark, you are NO dummy!! You may be, quite literally, half a world away but I find a lot of wisdom in how you do things!! I appreciate you. You are one of my 5 garden gurus!
Copper has had an almost mythical relationship with our species for thousands of years, but the usefulness of copper is real. Below I've linked a study about the benefits of copper, but in this regard, it's not. In fact, you probably hurt the plant by doing it.
Copper has a very useful trait where it breaks down the cellular walls of bacteria, fungus, and viruses. But, it also breaks down the cellular walls of plants and animals. Many hospitals are trying to copper plate their metal surfaces to kill microbes because of how useful it is. But, by stabbing it through the plant, you are creating a wound, and then putting through metal that actively kills the cells in contact with it, which could slow the healing of the damage. You would likely have more luck trying to mix copper powder into the soil or dusting it on the plants surface. but sadly, even that will only have minor benefits. Sure, any microbe traveling through the stem that comes into direct contact with the copper wire will die, but those lines of travel will become less active because the copper is actively attacking that tissue, so the microbes, both negative and positive, will simply go around.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3067274/
It didn't do anything to the plant. All the test subjects were shit equally.
Additionally copper salts in anything more than trace amounts are very toxic. It also kills off the root microbiome which should really reduce plant resistance to pathogens.
Good idea
I love your channel and all the handy tips and really think you work very hard.
have been inspired by Marks videos, he is really down to earth and he comes across well, explaining things that I can understand. Nice guy Mark, keep making the videos mate!
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree merry merry King of the bush is he laugh kookaburra laugh kookaburra gay your life must be! That would be a thank you to mrs. Winger my first second and third grade music teacher. LOL
@Moose knucklehead -- same here!!! 😊😊
ours was slightly different and a bit darker. Kookaburra sits on the electric wire jumping up and down with his pants on fire, fry kookaburra fry kookaburra how painful your life must be
@Moose knucklehead no we didnt
They sang this on a Nickelodeon kids show called Gullah Gullah Island.
we sang it in Canada as well.
Men at Work did the song "I come from a land down under" that had that little flute line from that song and I heard that the AUS gov't sued them for it. One of the mates in the band apparently killed himself as a result. I have no idea whether this is true, but if so, how fucking sad.
My Dad when I was a kid used copper wire an his tomatoes.
Thanks for doing this! Saves the rest of us a year's worth of doing it ourselves. Always enjoy your videos.
Thank you for making me chuckle in your opening. I needed that today!
Just try bark grafting a tomato plant onto a kangaroo apple shrub, it should grow alot better when grafted
Yofatboy123 They are certainly from the same Solanum family so it’s likely you’re correct, grafting tomatoes to Kangaroo Apple might work.
Hey mark, is there any update on the banana passionfruit? I actually bought one myself when I saw it, no sign of flowers yet, (I know, it's still early).
That was actually the first video I watched as a subscriber (I think).
The copper wire sounds a bit too out there. If it was true, everyone would know about it and be using it. Those people that use it have possibly not seen any better, or are just lucky in growing disease resistant varieties. A bit of eco friendly spray never hurts, is more reliable, and appears to be much less of a hassle.
Thanks for the great content btw.
Yes Vasik, the banana passionfruit were both planted too late in the season (coming into our winter) and both died.. .The good news is I purchased two new plants coming into our summer (correct season this time) and will plant one out in the orchard and another in a container to test which grows best. I haven't tried this type of passionfruit but my wife grew up eating them and they are her fav variety - I'm keen to try one! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme I have found that you need to plant two passion fruit plants together and in the ground, as a pot limits the root system. Planting at least two plants together yields a much better crop through cross pollination. Also plant them on an overhanging trellis as they love the sun. Not much else will grow underneath them. They only yield well for about 3-4 years, so plant another two passion fruit at the three year mark so that when you pull out the older ones the newly planted passion fruit will be yielding well. Love ya work buddy!
Thank you for the experiment and filming it. Great video 👍🔝
Thx for the test really informative, loved it!
I have wondered about copper wire ringing around a tomato stem would deter pests such as hornworm climbing the plant to do damage. I dont think a worm or slug encountering copper would climb over it!
James Wilburn Hello from Florida which basically has the same weather conditions as Brisbane... very hot and very humid. We also have about the same plethora of pests, with snails and slugs being ever present... If you put a copper wire ring around your plant IT WILL DETER SNAILS AND SLUGS 🐌. Their sliminess somehow reacts with the copper and they will NOT cross over it. This works better than ANY pesticides out there. Sadly I don’t think it works for the hornworms though... picking those off by hand is the best method to remove them. But at least you can still have the gratification of smushing them after picking them off 😁. Peace and blessings 💜
Hi
Did you try to spin the wire the other way around ? I've been told that clockwise spinning is for Northern hemisphere, 😊 just kidding. Good experiment, it's very cool to carry out this test on a long term. In gardening, we are overwhelmed by so many esoteric believes... Do you follow moon calendar for sowing or planting? That would be interresting too. Greetings from France,
LOL... No, I haven't followed moon growing but I have heard about it and that's an interesting concept too! Ahh beautiful France... We were so lucky to visit the French countryside last year. Just hired a car and drove without a plan stopping where we ended up each day. What a memorable drive and tour around it was :)
Really love your videos, thanks for sharing. I always get a bit jealous of your great garden and the plants you grow.
👋🏽 from Germany
Your hard work is very much appreciated! In the words of Argent in the song Hold Your Head Up --"And if they shout don't let it change a thing that you're doing" Keep up the tremendous videos!!
No the copper works for Snails That gives a gemy reaction to the snail and will not slime up further and eat your fruits or vegetables But don't stick it through the trunk of the plant, but twist it around it😁
Yay!! Your statement is actually TRUE... a copper ring around the plant WILL DETER snails and slugs which are the prevalent pest in hot, humid Florida. I am gonna post this to the main chat... peace and blessings 💜
Vaseline on the stem works too, but is way more messy.
The science is conclusive--Copper Foil Hats eviscerated.
I love the wee looks on your face when you're cooking the wire. Priceless.
I love your videos. very informative and very entertaining - thank you for the video uploads.
It was worth a try. In my experience, rusty nails in the soil tend to aid hydrangeas change colour. Perhaps the copper has to oxidise. Don't plants take up elements via ions?
A little epsom salt works nicely too
Oxides of copper do not dissolve in water. Indeed plants rely on passive movement of ions. You can tell it would have no affect.
That'd be because the iron oxide stains the water that stains the plant (perhaps, I've never seen it, but that's the only way it'd work feasibly). But copper wire through the plant would be like taping an asprin to your forehead when you have a headache. Copper powder in the soil would be like grinding that asprin up and rubbing it into your forehead. I'd rather just take the asprin. Also most fungicides have far more than copper sulfides in them.
Steel wool should accelerate iron availability if you don't wanna use chelate and you want a little faster change than with nails. Steel wool is just a half step closer to being a chelate due to how fast it rusts. Nails would be better in the long run, I guess both is best if you want both immediate and long term effect.
Obviously this didn't work because you are in Australia. Australian copper does nothing for tomato disease 😉
Must have to do with the reverse coriolis effect....😉
Yes! Isn't everything done upside down in Austrailia? Maybe wind the wire the other direction. LOL ; )
I was wondering about this! Thanks for going the experimenting!!❤
I love that you try all different methods & see if there's any truth to gardening myths - keep on brother